The family of the woman serving a life sentence for killing a driver after a minor accident hopes the Georgia Supreme Court grants her a new trial. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] A Clayton County jury convicted Hannah Payne of the murder of 62-year-old Kenneth Herring back in 2023 . She now claims her attorney during the trial made serious mistakes that contributed to the jury finding her guilty. Payne’s family says she is relying on her faith to get her through. “She stays in prayer, and she believes in the system,” her godmother, Renee Novotny, told Channel 2’s Tom Jones outside the Nathan Deal Justice Center. The family spoke after the justices listened to oral arguments in the case. They are hoping for the best. “I’d like to see them rule fairly and require that she be given a fair trial,” Novotny said. Payne says she didn’t get a fair trial because her trial attorney, Matt Tucker, made serious mistakes by not telling the jury she shot and killed the 62-year-old Herring because she was acting in defense of others while making a citizens’ arrest. Her attorney told the justices this was no minor mistake. “The defense that he chose is basically inappli
